Brussels, December 4 (RHC)-- Thousands marched in Brussels urging the Belgian government to respect its commitments on countering climate change as a United Nations conference on keeping global warming in check got underway in Poland.
Belgian police said some 65,000 people participated in the "Claim The Climate" demonstration, calling for "ambitious" climate policies to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with goals set by the Paris Agreement in 2015. Demonstrators marched through the quarter of the Belgian capital that houses the headquarters of the European Union, with banners bearing slogans including "There is no planet B" and "Climate First, Politics Second."
The Brussels demonstration coincided with the beginning of a two-week U.N. summit on climate change in the Polish city of Katowice. Even solid progress on the Paris goals may not be enough to prevent runaway global warming, as a series of major climate reports have outlined.
In a rare intervention, presidents of previous UN climate summits issued a joint statement as the talks got underway, calling on states to take "decisive action... to tackle these urgent threats." "The impacts of climate change are increasingly hard to ignore," said the statement, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. "We require deep transformations of our economies and societies."
"Climate change impacts have never been worse," Patricia Espinosa told journalists after the first negotiating session. "This reality is telling us that we need to do much more." The climate change conference in Poland came just days after U.S. President Donald Trump stood as the sole leader at the G-20 summit who did not sign on to a statement reaffirming support for the Paris agreement. Last year, Trump announced the U.S.’s withdrawal from the international agreement.
Thousands in Brussels march peacefully against global warming
Articles en relation
Commentaires
Laissez un commentaire
Tous les champs sont requis
En reproduction maintenant
24 Horas en el mundo
Au suivant
- Desde Mi Habana
- La Trova Cubana
- Retrato de Jazz
Plus de visites
- Ministre des Affaires étrangères : le nouveau veto américain est la preuve de la complicité avec le génocide israélien (+Photo)
- Le ministre cubain des affaires étrangères remercie le Fonds de développement d'Abou Dhabi pour son soutien
- Des syndicalistes américains pour le retrait de Cuba de la liste des pays terroristes
- Les marches emblématiques du grand escalier de l'Université de La Havane ont accueilli lundi soir l'hommage de la jeunesse cubaine au commandant en chef Fidel Castro Ruz
- Le blocus américain entrave le développement durable de Cuba